The U.S President Theodore Roosevelt became acquainted with
the naturalist John Muir in 1903. Muir guided the President through the
Yosemite wilderness, and convinced him to establish the Yosemite National Park,
the first in the country. Muir opposed the damming of the Hetchy Hetchy Valley,
known for its granite formations, and wrote to Roosevelt against it. However,
Roosevelt’s successors, not Roosevelt, approved the dam. So the two did not had
a solid disagreement.
He was a personal Physician for the Earl Shaftesbury.
The Spanish had been in the Southwest since the 1500s. They had created
chains of mission stations and fortresses called presidios throughout
the Southwest and up the coast of California (including Los Angeles).
